Jamming with Sea Creatures

Jamming With Sea Animals 

Daily Question: Do you like jelly fish?

Snacks: Grapes, pretzels and cheese cubes on sea creatures table cloth.

Toys: DiscoverABSeas Game, Sea Creature Stencils, Cranium Under the Sea Memory Game, Play Doh.

Songs: We had fun dancing like J the Jellyfish doing the Jitterbug at the Jamboree!

Eva and Lukas are sharks!  (With mouths wide open to bite!)

Janeen Brady's 
I Wish I Were a Fish
A Seahorse Merry-Go-Round.
 

We learned about J the jellyfish who liked to jiggle her arms and say "j-j-j" (jah, jah, jah) as she danced at the Jellyfish Jamboree in June. 

Outdoor Recess Fun:  "This is a ship and we are sailing the high seas!" 

Seasonal Books:
Fraklin's Christmas Gift by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark

Sea Animal Books:
Hooray for Fish! Lucy Cousins(Colors, textures, patterns, and opposites)

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Wish for a Fish; All About Sea Creatures by Bonnie Worth and Aristides Ruiz

Down at the Bottom of the Deep Dark Sea* by Rebecca C. Jones, ill. by Virgina Wright-Frierson

(*Book deals with a boys fear of water)

Look Inside the Ocean (A Poke & Look Learning Book)

Gilbert the Great by Jane Clarke and Charles Fuge (audio CD)

Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants by M. K. Brown

What's Up, What's Down? by Lola M. Schaefer, Ill. by Barbara Bash

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Phister

Paper Craft Activity: We began a Christmas Counting Chain Craft that we will work on more and send home on Thursday.  We practiced cutting out paper bells with scissors.  Parents, please practice cutting skills with your preschoolers.  It strengthens their hand-eye coordination and is a prerequisite skill.